MARIETTA, Ohio – The Ithaca College baseball team fell short in both games to bring a three-game weekend at Marietta College as the Bombers lost the opener, 9-8, to Johnson & Wales and then dropped a 4-1 decision to Marietta. Ithaca is now 6-6 on the season.
GAME ONE: Johnson & Wales 9, Ithaca 8
Ithaca started off the game strong as
Ethan Daddabbo and
Collin Feeney staked the Bombers to a 2-1 lead on RBI singles in the bottom of the second. Two more runs crossed the plate in the third on a two-run double from Daddabbo that brought in
Andrew McDermott and
Camden Laney.
It was all Johnson & Wales after that, however, as the Wildcats scored eight of the next 10 runs between the fifth and sixth innings. JWU plated five runs in the top of the fifth and three more in the sixth.
The Bombers were able to keep it close with two runs in the fifth as
Logan Scully singled in McDermott and
Lucas Orlovitz.
Scully then blasted a solo home run in the eighth and doubled in Daddabbo in the bottom of the ninth to make it 9-8. IC then put runners on the corners with two outs, but a fly out ended the game.
Scullt was 3-for-5 with four RBI, while Daddabbo was 3-for-4 with three RBI. McDermott also recorded three hits, while Feeney and
Ethan McDonough both notched two hits.
GAME TWO: Marietta 4, Ithaca 1
Ithaca fell behind, 3-0, after the first inning as the Pioneers strung together three straight two-out hits to plate three runs.
The Bombers got a run back in the top of the second on a solo home run from McDermott, but that was all the offense IC could generate in the game. McDermott also hit a triple in the loss
Ithaca was held to just three hits and struck out 13 times as Marietta starting pitcher Austin Ziance fanned 10 batters in 7.0 innings. Cooper Fiehrer accounted for the other three strikeouts in 2.0 innings of relief.
Marietta scored another run in the bottom of the eighth to account for the 4-1 final.
Colin Leyner took the loss in 6.0 innings and settled in after a shaky first inning to scatter four hits for the rest of his outing.
IC plays Spalding tomorrow morning at 11 a.m.